Roger Turner Co. maintains the utmost professional ethics

Appraising is typically a long term career. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever in the past. That's why it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be called a profession rather than a trade. As with any profession we must follow strict ethical considerations.

The appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Typically, for a regular residential appraisal, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has hired in order to maintain independence. Subsequently, appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus many rules and regulations to which we must adhere. As a homeowner, if you would like a copy of the appraisal document, you normally have to get it through your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate figures appropriate to the parameters of the assignment, attaining and maintaining a respectable level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Roger Turner Co., we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will sometimes be required to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Generally the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.

Roger Turner Co. has worked hard for its reputation for completing competent and ethically superior appraisals. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for a minimum of five years - at Roger Turner Co. you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

Roger Turner Co. holds itself to the industry standards and guidelines set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value with the reward of getting paid more money! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice clearly describes a violation in ethics as the acceptance of an assignment that is contingent on "the reporting of a pre-determined result (e.g., opinion of value)", "a direction in assignment results that favors the cause of the client", or "the amount of a value opinion" in addition to other situations We follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

As soon as you engage Roger Turner Co., we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the high ethical standards we're known for.